cockle

1. 1.

   stir up (water) so as to form ripples

   Synonymsrippleruffleriffleundulate

   Broaderflow
2. 2.

   to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

   “She puckered her lips”

   Synonymspuckerrumplecrumpleknit

   Broaderwrinkle

Other forms of cockle

plural

cockles·

past tense

cockled·

present participle

cockling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cockle

What does cockle mean?

cockle means "common edible European bivalve". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cockle?

cockle has 2 syllables: coc-kle. The stress falls on "coc". In IPA it is /ˈkɑkəl/.

What is another word for cockle?

Close synonyms include ripple, ruffle, riffle, undulate, pucker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cockle a common word?

cockle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.